Tag: data protection

RAG TV: Boosting Profits with Engineering Governance

Yesterday's episode of RAG TV saw Nikhil Sehgal of Colt explaining the role of engineering governance, and Steffen Öftring of SIGOS talking about web-based risk training.

Top Court Kills Another EU-US Data Privacy Deal but Authorities Are Likely to Ignore Consequences

Max Schrems won another case about EU-US arrangements for personal data but nobody expects EU authorities to take action.

Virgin Media’s Data Breach Shows Why Risk Silos Fail

CEO Lutz Schüler and his team tried to shift the blame to a single employee, but the real blame for a breach that impacts 900,000 customers lies in the failure to unify the management of risk.

Which Predictions Were Right?

Five major trends were described at the beginning of 2018. Did change occur as rapidly as expected?

The EU Is Ruining the Open Internet

Axel Voss MEP persuaded the European Parliament to add to the long track record of terrible EU decisions about the management of the internet.

T-Mobile US Admits to New Data Breach

The telco denied customer passwords were compromised but seemingly this is because the passwords were encrypted. Security researchers have questioned the strength of the encryption.

Not Sure What GDPR Ensures

A new ISO working group claims its standard will 'ensure consumer privacy at every step'... or does it?

RAG Events Venture Into New Territories

Safaricom, Sprint and Batelco have agreed to host telco risk and assurance conferences in Kenya, USA and Bahrain respectively.

Do Not Call Registers: A Gift for Fraudsters?

Academics found their honeypot received a string of calls from a spammer who had obviously targeted numbers on the UK's do not call (DNC) register.

1 Trillion Mobile Biometric Transactions by 2022; What Can Go Wrong?

A new report says mobile biometrics will be worth USD50bn within 5 years, but we need societies to also consider the costs.

Reacting to a Data Breach: 4 Essentials for Every Exec

Data breaches happen so often that they may seem unavoidable. However, executives continue to respond by making mistakes they could and should avoid.

The Meaning of GDPR with Rachel Goodin

Ocado's Head of Control Environments discusses the practical implications of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

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